Dannica Doplayna, Period 3 Ms. Reid, English 10 / 10 Honors 13 December 2015 ORP 2 Dialectical Journal / Theme Statement Paragraph Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1944. Print. Passages quoted from the text Responses 1. “He could not punish me now without risking his authority. I was happy because I had at last found a way to throw my criticism of him into his face” (13). Wright’s actions towards the kitten may have been violent, but they felt justified. Wright…
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Why We Can’t Wait Figurative Language Analysis In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. It was mid civil war, the newly industrialized North fought for the emancipation of slaves, while the south fought hard to keep slavery. The proclamation was supposed to free all slaves and force the nation into a state of equality, the however was little. The treatment of blacks remained unchanged, poverty plagues the negro population, and many remained at the feet of whites…
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for freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. incorporated his Christian background and the peaceful tactics of Mahatma Gandhi, and led the African American community in the Civil Rights Movement. In his speech “I Have a Dream”, Martin Luther King Jr. used rhetorical concepts to unify this nation at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. To start with, the use of Logos aided him toward convincing his audience with the use of verses. Following, Ethos supplied him with credibility while he quoted the Declaration of…
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Rhetorical Analysis (Paper 2) In the article, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meaning of Gender,” the author, Aaron Devor, is trying to convince his audience that gender shapes how we behave and relate to one another. He does this by using an educational approach, describing gender stereotypes, and making cultural references. These rhetorical devices serve his larger goal of getting readers to reflect on how their childhoods formed their genders. “Maleness and femaleness seem…
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Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answers. (This following excerpt is from “It Takes a Village” by Hillary Clinton) 1.Right now in our biggest cities and our smallest towns there are boys and girls being tucked gently into bed, and there are boys and girls who have no one to call mom or dad and no place to call home 5. Right now there are mothers and fathers just finishing a long day’s work and there are mothers and fathers just going to work, some to their second or third job of the…
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videos and song lyrics where men are objectifying women and talking about sex, violence, drugs, alcohol and partying”. Rap and Hip hop have be situated put down as anti-female, specifically with the famous emotional exclusion of Bitches and Hoes by Geto Boys. In this lyric “These bitches I be doing in, hoes I be screwing, and if she talk about her friends, then I probably flew em in what's a man troubling, like fuckin in a bubble Benz with her hair in the wind, sitting up from the rim…”. Just like what…
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Does tokenism in Children’s Media create negative stereotypes? Jordan Pollock 2107965 Token, or minority characters have appeared persistently since the early days of children’s media. There has be no real consistency in the use of Token minority characters in children’s film and television, neither through sex, or race. Females have appeared as minority characters on boy’s television shows, and vice versa. African Americans have appeared as racial minority, yet, a Caucasian character has been…
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Introducing Pierre Bourdieu’s Analysis of Class, Gender and Sexuality Beverley Skeggs (from L.Adkins & B.Skeggs (2005) Feminism After Bourdieu. Oxford. Blackwell. Pierre Bourdieu died in January 2002, leaving a huge legacy of work, across a range of topics and disciplines. Although institutionally established as professor of sociology at the prestigious College de France his first substantive research was anthropological – on the Kabliya in Algeria (The Algerians 1958)1. From this he developed…
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Table of Contents What is Critical Reading? 5 Patterns of Elements 5 Non-critical Reading 5 Goals 5 Goals of Critical Reading 5 Recognizing What a Text Says, Does, and Means 6 Tools of Critical Reading 6 Diction 7 Critical Analysis 7 Steps of Critical Reading 8 Recognizing a Text as a Presentation 8 Describing the Nature of These Aspects of the Text 8 Inferring the Underlying Assumptions and Perspectives of the Discussion 8 Critical Reading vs. Critical Thinking…
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Department of English Spring 2014 Course Descriptions 89S. Imagining War. Instructor M. Maiwald. WF 8:30-9:45 In this course, we will consider how the experience of war has been represented in American fiction, non-fiction, and film. We will investigate how attitudes toward war have evolved throughout American history: our timeline begins with the Civil War—the traumatic event that birthed the modern American state—and ends with the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In particular…
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